Mihaly

13 hours ago, Boot17 said:

The exact answer to this question is that there isn't currently a way to eliminate Quick Notes when you left-click on the Evernote icon in the system tray.

But what is the end goal, what are we trying to accomplish? I see it as "How can I open Evernote quickly without having to see the Quick Note".

And there is a lot of good advice and comments in this thread about different ways to open Evernote on Windows quickly without having to view the Quick Note.

To sum up:

1. Right-click on the Evernote system tray icon and select 'Open Evernote'.
2. Pin the Evernote application to the task bar and click on that instead of the system tray icon.
3. Press the Global Windows-Shift-F shortcut to open Evernote (and position the cursor in the search box)
4. Windows key, 'E', 'Enter'. (This is what I do. I launch most of my apps from the global windows search.)

Seeing how OP stated "I have a ton of Notes that contain everything from tech manuals to recipes to employee data and I use Evernote to quickly find that information."... what they need is #3 above which is even faster than clicking on the system tray icon to open Evernote (if you could) and then pressing a keyboard shortcut (or clicking elsewhere) to set cursor focus to search.

Yes, you're right, I missed the suggestion that I right-click the systray icon and open from that menu and I hadn't thought of trying that. I'm happy with that. Thanks Jon/T and Boot17.

9 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

There are 402 Functions in Excel. I made a count, just use 37 of them.

Add my vote the other 365 must be disabled, they distract me.

I agree disabling is the wrong term, I'd just like to be given the option of disabling it.

As an analogy, imagine you've been using the autosum button (or something) in Excel for years, then Microsoft decides you need to need to fire up the pivot table dialog to get to the autosum.

14 hours ago, bmcl26 said:

Just because you dont use it is no justification for removal, some of us do use it although, I have never seen it pop up without my initiating it.

Sorry, I don't mean remove it, just provide us with the option of not having it appear when we want to bring up the full app using the systray icon. I realise people use QuickNotes and I don't mean to cause them problems.

5 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Do you also get to Evernote from the hidden icons thing on the taskbar, like the original poster here? It might be simpler to pin Evernote to the taskbar and just access it from there. That eliminates the Quick Note.

I fire up Evernote by clicking on the little white elephant in the system tray. At least I used to, now I have to click on that and then find and click on the white button on a white background in the QuickNote window that I never use.

Yes I can pin the Evernote icon on the taskbar. That'll take up taskbar real estate though (which is at a premium on a laptop screen), I have a few things pinned there already. I'll probably end up going down this path and hide the systray elephant to get some taskbar space back.

Adding my vote to remove QuickNotes. I never use it, it just breaks my flow of thought.